Roger Haight Jesus Symbol of God
Roger Haight's Jesus Symbol of God (Orbis Books, 1999) [1] stands as a bold, ambitious attempt to construct a systematic Christology attuned to the challenges of postmodernity—historical consciousness, religious pluralism, social critique, and a demand for intelligibility in a fragmented world. He presents a robust and apologetic Christology, meticulously crafted for a postmodern intellectual landscape. This means he will intersect with Wolfhart Pannenberg and diverge from Karl Barth. Central to Haight's project is the conviction that our understanding of Jesus (Christology) must emerge from our experience of salvation (soteriology). Haight, a Jesuit theologian, begins "from below," grounding his reflection in the historical Jesus of Nazareth as the concrete symbol mediating God's salvific presence. Revelation is always historically mediated, faith is experiential and soteriological (rooted in encounters of salvation), and theology must be symbolic: dialec...